USN-2198-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's pseudo tty pty device. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially gain administrator privileges...

USN-2187-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure, data integrity and availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive data over the network. CVE-2014-0429, CVE-2014-0446, CVE-2014-0451, CVE-2014-0452,...

USN-2096-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Pageexec reported a bug in the Linux kernel's recvmmsg syscall when called from code using the x32 ABI. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or gain administrator privileges...

USN-2076-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Dave Jones and Vince Weaver reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's per event subsystem that allows normal users to enable function tracing. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from the kernel. CVE-2013-2930 Stephan Mueller reported an erro...

USN-2031-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, potentially execute arbitrary code, or lead to information disclosure. CVE-2013-1741,...

USN-1984-1: Python 3.2 vulnerabilities

Florian Weimer discovered that Python incorrectly handled matching multiple wildcards in ssl certificate hostnames. An attacker could exploit this to cause Python to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2013-2099 Ryan Sleevi discovered that Python did not properly handle...

USN-1977-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

An information leak was discovered in the handling of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement RA messages in the Linux kernel's IPv6 network stack. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently obtain sensitive...

USN-1946-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

A denial of service flaw was discovered in the Btrfs file system in the Linux kernel. A local user could cause a denial of service by creating a large number of files with names that have the same CRC32 hash value. CVE-2012-5374 A denial of service flaw was discovered in the Btrfs file system in...

USN-1940-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Vasily Kulikov discovered a flaw in the Linux Kernel's perf tool that allows for privilege escalation. A local user could exploit this flaw to run commands as root when using the perf tool. CVE-2013-1060 Michael S. Tsirkin discovered a flaw in how the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem allocates memory...

USN-1838-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

An flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's perfevents interface. A local user could exploit this flaw to escalate privileges on the system. CVE-2013-2094 A buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in the Broadcom tg3 ethernet driver for the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw...

USN-1792-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Mathias Krause discovered several errors in the Linux kernel's xfrmuser implementation. A local attacker could exploit these flaws to examine parts of kernel memory. CVE-2012-6537 Mathias Krause discovered information leak in the Linux kernel's compat ioctl interface. A local user could exploit t...

USN-1755-2: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

USN-1755-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 6. This update provides the corresponding updates for OpenJDK 7. Original advisory details: It was discovered that OpenJDK did not properly validate certain types of images. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause OpenJDK to crash. CVE-2013-0809 I...

USN-1740-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability

Suleiman Souhlal, Salman Qazi, Aaron Durbin and Michael Davidson discovered a race condition in the Linux kernel's ptrace syscall. An unprivileged local attacker could exploit this flaw to run programs as an administrator...

USN-1696-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jon Howell reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel-based virtual machine subsystem's handling of the XSAVE feature. On hosts, using qemu userspace, without the XSAVE feature an unprivileged local attacker could exploit this flaw to crash the system. CVE-2012-4461 A flaw was discovered in...

USN-1647-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Brad Spengler discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's uname system call. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to read kernel stack memory. CVE-2012-0957 Rodrigo Freire discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP illinois congestion control algorithm. A local attacker could use this to cau...

USN-1535-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

An error was discovered in the Linux kernel's network TUN/TAP device implementation. A local user with access to the TUN/TAP interface which is not available to unprivileged users until granted by a root user could exploit this flaw to crash the system or potential gain administrative privileges...

USN-1514-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's macvtap device driver, which is used in KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine to create a network bridge between host and guest. A privleged user in a guest could exploit this flaw to crash the host, if the vhostnet module is loaded with the...

USN-1509-1: Firefox vulnerabilities

Benoit Jacob, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, Bill McCloskey, Brian Smith, Gary Kwong, Christoph Diehl, Chris Jones, Brad Lassey, and Kyle Huey discovered memory safety issues affecting Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could possibly exploit...

USN-1463-3: Firefox regressions

USN-1463-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The new package caused a regression in the rendering of Hebrew text and the ability of the Hotmail inbox to auto-update. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory details: Jesse Ruderman, Igor Bukanov, Bill McCloskey, Christian Holler, Andrew...

USN-1474-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's KVM kernel virtual machine. An administrative user in the guest OS could leverage this flaw to cause a denial of service in the host OS. CVE-2012-2121 Schacher Raindel discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's memory handling when hugetlb is enabled. An...

USN-1453-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

A flaw was found in the Linux's kernels ext4 file system when mounted with a journal. A local, unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-4086 A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine virtual cpu setup. An unprivileged local user coul...

USN-1412-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Somnath Kotur discovered an error in the Linux kernel's VLAN virtual lan and be2net drivers. An attacker on the local network could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service...

USN-1387-1: Linux kernel (Maverick backport) vulnerabilities

Aristide Fattori and Roberto Paleari reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of IPv4 icmp packets. A remote user could exploit this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-1927 A flaw was found in the Linux Ethernet bridge's handling of IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol packets. An...

USN-1361-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Han-Wen Nienhuys reported a flaw in the FUSE kernel module. A local user who can mount a FUSE file system could cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-3353 A flaw was found in KVM's Programmable Interval Timer PIT. When a virtual interrupt control is not available a local user could use this to caus...

USN-1297-1: Django vulnerabilities

Pall McMillan discovered that Django used the root namespace when storing cached session data. A remote attacker could exploit this to modify sessions. CVE-2011-4136 Paul McMillan discovered that Django would not timeout on arbitrary URLs when the application used URLFields. This could be exploit...

USN-1212-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Goldwyn Rodrigues discovered that the OCFS2 filesystem did not correctly clear memory when writing certain file holes. A local attacker could exploit this to read uninitialized data from the disk, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2011-0463 Timo Warns discovered that the LDM disk partition handli...

USN-1151-1: Nagios vulnerabilities

Stefan Schurtz discovered than Nagios did not properly sanitize its input when processing certain requests, resulting in cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote...

USN-1113-1: Postfix vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Postfix package incorrectly granted write access on the PID directory to the postfix user. A local attacker could use this flaw to possibly conduct a symlink attack and overwrite arbitrary files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and 8.04 LTS. CVE-2009-2939 Wiets...

USN-1109-1: GIMP vulnerabilities

It was discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed data in certain plugin configuration files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted plugin configuration file, an attacker could cause GIMP to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. The defaul...

USN-1079-2: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities

USN-1079-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 6 for non-armel ARM architectures. This update provides the corresponding updates for OpenJDK 6 for use with the armel ARM architectures. In order to build the armel ARM OpenJDK 6 update for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, it was necessary to rebuild binutils and...

USN-1013-1: FreeType vulnerabilities

Marc Schoenefeld discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted font file, a remote attacker could cause FreeType to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. This issue only affected Ubunt...

USN-993-1: libgdiplus vulnerability

Stefan Cornelius discovered that libgdiplus incorrectly handled certain image files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted image file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

USN-877-1: Firefox 3.0 and Xulrunner 1.9 regression

USN-873-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. The upstream changes introduced a regression when using NTLM authentication. This update fixes the problem and adds additional stability fixes. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Jesse Ruderman, Josh Soref,...

USN-812-1: Subversion vulnerability

Matt Lewis discovered that Subversion did not properly sanitize its input when processing svndiff streams, leading to various integer and heap overflows. If a user or automated system processed crafted input, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code ...

USN-782-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Several flaws were discovered in the JavaScript engine of Thunderbird. If a user had JavaScript enabled and were tricked into viewing malicious web content, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program...

USN-787-1: Apache vulnerabilities

Matthew Palmer discovered an underflow flaw in apr-util as included in Apache. An attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash in Apache using a crafted SVNMasterURI directive, .htaccess file, or when using modapreq2. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. CVE-2009-0023 Sande...

USN-703-1: xterm vulnerabilities

Paul Szabo discovered that the DECRQSS escape sequences were not handled correctly by xterm. Additionally, window title operations were also not safely handled. If a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted series of characters while in xterm, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary...

USN-685-1: Net-SNMP vulnerabilities

Wes Hardaker discovered that the SNMP service did not correctly validate HMAC authentication requests. An unauthenticated remote attacker could send specially crafted SNMPv3 traffic with a valid username and gain access to the user's views without a valid authentication passphrase. CVE-2008-0960...

USN-664-1: Tk vulnerability

It was discovered that Tk could be made to overrun a buffer when loading certain images. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted GIF image, remote attackers could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with user privileges...

USN-464-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Philipp Richter discovered that the AppleTalk protocol handler did not sufficiently verify the length of packets. By sending a crafted AppleTalk packet, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel. CVE-2007-1357 Gabriel Campana discovered that the doipv6setsockopt function did not...

USN-197-1: Shorewall vulnerability

A firewall bypass vulnerability has been found in shorewall. If MACLISTTTL was set to a value greater than 0 or MACLISTDISPOSITION was set to "ACCEPT" in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf, and a client was positively identified through its MAC address, that client bypassed all other policies/rules in...

USN-101-1: telnet vulnerabilities

A buffer overflow was discovered in the telnet client's handling of the LINEMODE suboptions. By sending a specially constructed reply containing a large number of SLC Set Local Character commands, a remote attacker i. e. a malicious telnet server could execute arbitrary commands with the privileg...

USN-60-0: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

CAN-2005-0001: Paul Starzetz discovered a race condition in the Linux page fault handler code. This allowed an unprivileged user to gain root privileges on multiprocessor machines under some circumstances. This also affects the Hyper-Threading mode on Pentium 4 processors...

USN-48-1: xpdf, tetex-bin vulnerabilities

A potential buffer overflow has been found in the xpdf viewer. An insufficient input validation could be exploited by an attacker providing a specially crafted PDF file which, when processed by xpdf, could result in abnormal program termination or the execution of attacker supplied program code...

USN-14-1: xpdf vulnerabilities

Markus Meissner discovered even more integer overflow vulnerabilities in xpdf, a viewer for PDF files. These integer overflows can eventually lead to buffer overflows. The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS uses the same code to print PDF files; tetex-bin uses the code to generate PDF output and...

USN-6895-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-6270 It was discovered that the HugeTLB file syst...

USN-6705-1: Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the DesignWare USB3 for Qualcomm SoCs driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain error conditions during device registration. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2023-22995 It was discovered that the NVIDIA...

USN-6524-1: PyPy vulnerability

Nicky Mouha discovered that PyPy incorrectly handled certain SHA-3 operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PyPy to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-6440-2: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities

Seth Jenkins discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly perform address randomization for a per-cpu memory management structure. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory or in conjunction with another kernel vulnerability. CVE-2023-0597 It was discovere...

USN-6446-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ross Lagerwall discovered that the Xen netback backend driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain unusual packets from a paravirtualized network frontend, leading to a buffer overflow. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service host system crash or...